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I haven't seen this before. I guess it depends on the winery.

This all to thwart VA, who are actively selecting their bigger business flyers to become Plat (and above). I don't see VA winning this argument, and neither should they.

I usually book AirBnB properties through booking.com, as I find they often offer better rates to me as a Genius level 3, and I find booking.com fairly easy to deal with in relation to accommodation. The exception with booking.com, and other OTA's such as GoToGate, is that they can be a little...

Correct (we know as we have free MyWay+ cards. Prior to that, we were under 70, and had concession fares (but free between 9 and 4).

I was told by my wine consultant that she has guidelines as to how many extra points she can offer, and can't go beyond this. So you make your decision on this basis. Usually, for me, it's just go with the website price.

Well, actually Pooch, I'm not doing that run until next month. I'm in two minds about it. If the weather's fine, I'll may well walk to Breadalbane and wait for the bus. If it doesn't come or if there's some other issue, I'd call an Uber. Or, alternatively, I could just rent a car at LST. I'll...

I'm not sure what you were trying to say Pooch, but my wife and I are 70+ and do have completely free travel within the ACT with our MyWay+ cards, On the other hand, if we wish to take our 5 year old granddaughter out for a tram ride, she needs to have her own MyWay card (at a cost) and pay for...

I took out a cheapie subscription for GBP 55 pm, just to get enough Avios to book a flight LGW-MLA that was $900 for a cash fare. Mission accomplished (got the last seat), and I'll probably cancel after 3 months, although I can see the value for intra-Europe flights.

FWIW, I've found that seats.aero doesn't display many QF rewards available on EK I was looking for Europe-Asia (DXB) fusing QF points for a cerain date, and all that showed up were flights ex UK. I was looking for a FCO-DXB reward, but nothing was identified. I thought this was a little...

Seems to me that VA are struggling to get pax to fly more and reach the highly elevated Velocity Gold/Plat levels, so they are now handpicking members for elevation. Perhaps they should've just dumped the carp and elevated their preferred flyers without any conditions. The end result will be...

Perhaps they should've gone RR.

Yes, all valid concerns then. I'm usually quite able to fight my way through this crowd and find a seat, get a few drinks and mentally chill out. If I get annoyed, it's usually because of more important things.

Not sure where you got that idea from, but no charge for senior's MyWay cards in th ACT. On the other hand, there are charges for our 5 yo granddaughter.

Which point can you see? Daver6? I'm happy with any QF lounge that takes me away from the madding crowd. Others may disagree. One wonders about them (the people that disagree), though.

Do Not go anywhere near Indian websites.

You've hit the nail on the head.

Meals rather better than on the 10 hour CX 777 new config flight HKG-SYD I took recently, where the wine was poured into paper cups (!). Not premium at all. What are they thinking? Oh, wait. People from Asia typically aren't big wine drinkers. OK.

We have PC's and laptops in our house running Widows XP, Win7, Win10 and Win11. The XP machine powers our TV and my wife prefers Win10 (as that's what she knows best). I much prefer Win7 and have a laptop and PC running it. If I really need to (for whatever reason), I'll switch to a machine...

Well, my wife, who is in the 70+ category, has never had a MyWay card of any sort until this week, when one of our granddauaghters said she wanted to have a ride on a tram. So off to the local tobacconist she trotted and asked for a new 70+ MyWay card. The guy behind the counter said OK, and...

Well, I'm happy to say that I have now cancelled this Hertz rental and my VA flight from SYD to OOL. Instead, I've booked a cheap JQ flight from CBR. I guess I can survive it for an hour and a half, particularly after a little liquid fortification in the Qantas business lounge beforehand.